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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461302003321

Autore

Arribas-Ayllon Michael

Titolo

Genetic testing : accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame / / Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi and Angus Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-45813-6

9786613458131

1-134-02629-3

0-203-89138-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Genetics and society

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkeAngus <1954->

SarangiSrikant <1956->

Disciplina

174.2/96042

Soggetti

Genetic screening - Moral and ethical aspects

Medical genetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Genetic Testing; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Genetic testing: technology in context; 3. Neo-liberalism and the new genetics; 4. Rhetorical discourse analysis; 5. Personal genomics and the media; 6. Family accounts of genetic responsibility; 7. Accounts of genetic testing in the clinic; 8. Professional accounts of ethical challenges in the prenatalgenetics clinic; 9. Conclusion; Appendix: transcription conventions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as genetic professionals. This book explores the ways in which genetic testing generates not only probabilities of potential futures, but also enjoys new forms of social, individual and professional responsibility. Concerns about confidentiality and informed consent involving children, the assessment



of competence and maturity, the ability to engage in shared decision-making through acts of disclosure and choice, are just some of the issues that are examined in detail"--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910554489103321

Autore

Bloom Mia <1968->

Titolo

Pastels and pedophiles : inside the mind of QAnon / / Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Redwood Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-3061-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations, map

Disciplina

320.9730905

Soggetti

QAnon conspiracy theory - United States

Women radicals - United States

Conspiracy theories - Political aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages (197-234)) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Loony lies and conspiracies: making sense of QAnon -- January 6, 2021: Capitol Hill, the failed insurrection -- Red-pilling, right-wing conspiracies, and radicalization -- Life after Q -- Qontagion -- Faqs.

Sommario/riassunto

Two experts of extremist radicalization take us down the QAnon rabbit hole, exposing how the conspiracy theory ensnared countless Americans, and show us a way back to sanity. In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women were among those who died that day. They, like millions of Americans, believed that a mysterious insider known as 'Q'is exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy. The QAnon conspiracy theory has ensnared many women, who identify as members of 'pastel QAnon,' answering the call to 'save the children'. With Pastels and Pedophiles, Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko explain why the rise of QAnon should not surprise us: believers have been manipulated to follow the



baseless conspiracy. The authors track QAnon's unexpected leap from the darkest corners of the Internet to the filtered glow of yogi-mama Instagram, a frenzy fed by the COVID-19 pandemic that supercharged conspiracy theories and spurred a fresh wave of Q-inspired violence. Pastels and Pedophiles connects the dots for readers, showing how a conspiracy theory with its roots in centuries-old anti-Semitic hate has adapted to encompass local grievances and has metastasized around the globe—appealing to a wide range of alienated people who feel that something is not quite right in the world around them.